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trauma

Definition for trauma

noun as in severe mental or physical pain

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She says what she thought would be her dream job ended up leaving her with lifelong trauma.

From BBC

Budowich and his staff will act as blunt-force trauma, applied to reporters.

From Salon

Part thriller, part true crime investigation, the nonfiction book uses one of the most heinous unsolved crimes of the Troubles — the 1972 disappearance of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 who was abducted from her Belfast home by intruders assumed to be members of the Irish Republican Army — to explore the lingering trauma of political violence on survivors and perpetrators alike.

Petticrew, 28, is a “ceasefire baby,” part of a generation that grew up during a fragile peace but still grapples with social division, economic inequality and intergenerational trauma.

The humanity of these families and the trauma deportation would inflict are of no apparent concern to the incoming administration.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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